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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 6: The Fruits of Long Endeavors; Atossa's War.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is STAMP?
(a) Spongey Tumor Automated Mammogram Program.
(b) Special Tumor Analysis Marrow Properties.
(c) Solid Tumor Autologous Marrow Program.
(d) Simulated Test and Analysis for Mammograms and Paps.

2. People began to talk about _________________ and did not want to wait for the trials to be completed or for the FDA to approve the new treatment.
(a) Herceptin.
(b) Gleevec.
(c) MOPP.
(d) PARP inhibitors.

3. In ___________, George Canellas and Tom Frei spent time in the lab matching various drugs to various cancers. Included on the drug list were cytotoxic drugs cytoxan, vincristine, procarabazine, and methotrexate.
(a) 1953.
(b) 1973.
(c) 1963.
(d) 1943.

4. Virchow ultimately referred to the disease as "weisses Blut" or ___________. In 1847 the name was changed to leukemia.
(a) Poisoned blood.
(b) Red blood.
(c) White blood.
(d) Blue blood.

5. The theory showed how soot, radiation, cigarette smoke and other outside insults could cause cancer by doing what?
(a) Mutating cancergenes within the cell.
(b) Mutating sarcogenes within the cell.
(c) Mutating oncogenes within the cell.
(d) Mutating carcinogenes within the cell.

Short Answer Questions

1. The trend also raised questions regarding what?

2. In 1947, a pathologist named Sidney Farber waited impatiently in his laboratory for a parcel from _______________. Farber was a pediatric pathologist.

3. The author discusses the importance of whose "OncoMouse?"

4. The radical mastectomy needed to be tested against what?

5. Orman had cancer where?

(see the answer key)

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